Kukla's Korner Hockey

The St. Louis Blues have a pulse after a nightmarish season that saw the proud franchise place dead last in the NHL.
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Buoyed by new ownership and looser purse strings, the Blues were active on the free-agent front this month and are turning things around.
"There's a real nice buzz in the city," Blues GM Larry Pleau said Thursday from St. Louis. "We're out of neutral anyway."